the three stooges are ahead of their time...

while doing some work on our youtube vids, i happened across this... its bizarrely ahead of its time:

"Who Invented Motion Capture"

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rre15ckcocY

actually I know that Disney did a manual type of motion capture for their hand animations from Snow White and some of their other old school 1930s animated features... so that predates this... but interesting.